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James Durie, head of scripted at Cineflix Rights, talks to<\/em> TV Drama about the crime thriller <\/em>Rebecca, based on the international hit series <\/em>Marcella.<\/em><\/p>\n

The fast-paced crime thriller Rebecca<\/em> is among the top titles Cineflix Rights is touting as it gears up for MIPCOM. The drama is based on the international hit series Marcella<\/em>. \u201cWe look at a lot of our scripted content for format potential, and Buccaneer Media, the producers behind Marcella<\/em>, had the same international vision for the show,\u201d says James Durie, head of scripted at Cineflix Rights. \u201cMarcella<\/em> stands out as a scripted series that has, at its center, a police officer investigating a crime that she might be involved with but isn\u2019t quite sure how or why\u2014putting her in the same position as the viewers. It\u2019s a female-led crime drama, filled with red herrings, twists and turns and a heart-wrenching journey of loss and redemption\u2014all of which give it a very strong appeal to international audiences, but also allow producers to adapt the multiple layers of the story and characters to create their own versions of the format.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the French remake for TF1, the story was relocated to the streets of Paris. Elephant adapted the series to reinforce Rebecca\u2019s role as a mother struggling with her kids, her job and her demons. Elephant also developed the relationship between Rebecca and Laura, her superior officer who secretly admires her, and Marco, the young cop working with her, to play a different role in the French remake (as viewers will discover at the end of the season). Elephant has woven Marcella\u2019s personal journey across the first two seasons into the first season of Rebecca<\/em>, which ends with the iconic scene from the close of season two of Marcella<\/em>, Durie notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarcella<\/em> is a proven success, with three seasons gripping audiences around the world, and we believe Rebecca<\/em> has the opportunity to replicate this,\u201d he adds. \u201cElephant has created a fast-paced and hard-hitting story alongside chronicling Rebecca\u2019s personal journey as a woman and a mother in her professional and family life, which results in a really high-impact show that will resonate with audiences internationally. The quality of the series has been recognized with an Official Selection, French Competition, at Series Mania.\u201d<\/p>\n

The beauty of the show, according to Durie, is that the audience goes on the journey along with the protagonist, unsure about her state of mind or her judgment or understanding what it is exactly that she\u2019s done or what she\u2019s capable of doing, \u201cwhich makes for great suspense. There\u2019s also a murder investigation at the center of all of this, and as that unravels, so does Rebecca. It\u2019s a thrilling and emotional ride all the way through the season, culminating in a gripping conclusion, which delivers a sense of justice and redemption, and so the payoff for the viewer is very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crime thrillers, like Rebecca<\/em>, have performed well in the marketplace for Cineflix Rights. \u201cThe combination of a story that is far from most people\u2019s everyday experience, with an intriguing plotline, twists and turns and a mystery that a viewer can quickly invest in, allows audiences to escape to a place they would never normally go,\u201d Durie says. \u201cThere\u2019s a universality to that, which audiences from all parts of the world can hook into. Added to this, what makes great drama are the characters, and within the crime genre that these characters inhabit, there is fertile ground to create brilliant, complex, diverse characters, both as the protagonists and antagonists\/villains of the story. Audiences can find ways to connect with these characters or be intrigued by them and want to see where their stories lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The finale of season one of Rebecca<\/em> is nicely set up for a return with a second. Cineflix Rights is currently in discussion with other international buyers about Marcella<\/em> as a format.<\/p>\n

\u201cRebecca<\/em> is the perfect example of the high-quality, distinctive dramas which are at the heart of our strategy of building a catalog of commercially and creatively exciting scripted content,\u201d says Durie. \u201cOur drama slate spans both English-language and international series alongside movies which we feel stand out in the market and offer something different to buyers. We have a loose focus on crime, including the multi-season North American procedural Coroner<\/em> and the quintessentially British \u2018cozy crime\u2019 series Whitstable Pearl<\/em>, alongside the riveting adaptation of Irvine Welsh\u2019s best-selling novel Crime<\/em>, returning seasons of the Israeli police corruption drama Mayayek<\/em>, Russian thriller An Ordinary Woman<\/em> and the darkly humorous award-winning Quebecois series Happily Married<\/em>. Espionage is another focus, with the huge global hit Tehran<\/em> and Mirage<\/em>, and we also have multiple seasons of the supernatural hit Wynonna Earp<\/em> playing to superfans around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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